The mobile phone app that can identify a tree by its leaf

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  • super jumbe
    V.I.P. Member
    • Dec 2008
    • 11610

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    The mobile phone app that can identify a tree by its leaf



    Leafsnap uses face-recognition software to identify a species of tree. Can it create a new generation of conservationists?
    To date, the world of mobile phone apps has largely left me cold. Yes, I can see how you can easily lose an hour of your life ? or more ? to Angry Birds. But the most interesting and potentially useful developments I have seen so far are apps such as Shazam and RedLaser. The power to identify and recognise non-text based things such as images and music points to just how potent and useful mobile phones are becoming.
    It now appears that we could be about to reach a significant new landmark. An app has just been launched that can identify a species of tree from a photograph of its leaf. Apps exist already that help you identify flora and fauna ? the Forestry Commission recently launched an app called ForestXplorer for identifying trees ? but they have traditionally relied on the user deducing the species from a list of possible characteristics.



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  • Meat-Head
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    • Oct 2009
    • 32000

    #2
    so what if you hold it to a screen shot of 'day of the triffids'?

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    • SouthernComfort
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      • Feb 2011
      • 403

      #3
      Originally posted by super jumbe


      Leafsnap uses face-recognition software to identify a species of tree. Can it create a new generation of conservationists?
      To date, the world of mobile phone apps has largely left me cold. Yes, I can see how you can easily lose an hour of your life ? or more ? to Angry Birds. But the most interesting and potentially useful developments I have seen so far are apps such as Shazam and RedLaser. The power to identify and recognise non-text based things such as images and music points to just how potent and useful mobile phones are becoming.
      It now appears that we could be about to reach a significant new landmark. An app has just been launched that can identify a species of tree from a photograph of its leaf. Apps exist already that help you identify flora and fauna ? the Forestry Commission recently launched an app called ForestXplorer for identifying trees ? but they have traditionally relied on the user deducing the species from a list of possible characteristics.



      I wound like a mobile to recenise if my women is in good mode tonight.
      Not sure about mood but you can run a full penetration testing suite from your phone.
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